3.0 Arrow Video Frightfest Review: A Serial Killer’s Guide To Life Sophie Elizabeth September 4, 2019 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews Thirty-something Lou Farnt (Katie Brayben), is a self-help addict floating through life in the stale seaside town in which she grew up. Controlled by her overbearing mother and stuck in a dead-end corner shop...
4.0 Movie Review: It Sophie Elizabeth September 14, 2017 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews In the Summer of 1989 in the small town of Derry, Maine, children are disappearing under mysterious circumstances. Knowing the culprit to be an evil, shapeshifting clown, seven young misfits (known as the...
3.5 Movie Review: Atomic Blonde Sophie Elizabeth August 11, 2017 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews Lorraine Broughton (Charlize Theron) is an elite spy working in MI6 during the Cold War. Following the murder of a fellow agent, she is sent to Berlin to retrieve a valuable dossier containing sensitive...
5.0 Movie Review: Dunkirk Sophie Elizabeth August 1, 2017 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews Told from the perspective of land, air and sea in June 1940, 400,000 British and French troops are stranded on the beaches of Dunkirk. With the enemy closing in and attacking from the air, the clock is ticking...
4.0 Movie Review: Spider-Man: Homecoming Sophie Elizabeth July 8, 2017 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews Following his cameo with the Avengers in Civil War, a young Peter Parker (Tom Holland) returns home under the supervision of Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr). Struggling to adapt to a normal routine, Peter is...
5.0 Movie Review: Baby Driver Sophie Elizabeth July 2, 2017 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews Baby (Ansel Elgort) decides to leave his life of crime behind when he meets the love of his life, Debora (Lily James). However, being the best in the business causes problems for Baby when his crime lord boss,...
4.0 Movie Review: Wonder Woman Sophie Elizabeth June 1, 2017 Movie Reviews Once the Princess of the Amazons, Diana (Gal Gadot) looks back on her past as an unstoppable warrior. However, when a warplane carrying an American spy (Chris Pine) crash lands on her hidden island, she learns...
3.0 DVD Review: Broken Sophie Elizabeth May 10, 2017 DVDs & Rentals, Editor's Choice Escaping a dark past, Evie (Morjana Alaoui) takes a job as a live-in carer for an ex-rockstar and tetraplegic, Jon (Mel Raido - Legend, 2015). Having suffered weeks of verbal and mental abuse from her...
4.0 Movie Review: Get Out Sophie Elizabeth March 23, 2017 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews When Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) visits his girlfriend's parents for the first time, he is very quickly made aware of a large elephant in the room. As an African American, he is made to feel increasingly...
4.0 Movie Review: The LEGO Batman Movie Sophie Elizabeth February 10, 2017 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews With big changes on the horizon from the new Commissioner of Gotham City (Rosario Dawson), there's not much room for a lone vigilante. Finding himself unfulfilled and alone in his island mansion, Batman (Will...
3.5 Movie Review: Gold Sophie Elizabeth January 27, 2017 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews Kenny Wells (Matthew McConaughey) is a prospector down on his luck. Having teamed up with a similarly eager geologist (Edgar RamÃrez), the pair travel to the uncharted jungle of Indonesia in search of gold....
4.0 DVD Review: War Dogs Sophie Elizabeth January 13, 2017 DVDs & Rentals Set in Florida in 2005, David Packouz (Miles Teller) is a down-and-out massage therapist who becomes a multi-millionaire when he teams up with a high-school friend, Efraim Diveroli (Jonah Hill), supplying...
3.5 Movie Review: Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them Sophie Elizabeth November 18, 2016 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews Set in the year 1926, writer Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) arrives in New York having returned from a global adventure documenting an extraordinary array of magical creatures. However, Newt's fantastical...
4.0 Movie Review: Free State Of Jones Sophie Elizabeth September 30, 2016 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews Based on true events in Mississippi 1862, a farmer and medic for the Confederate Army, Newton Knight (Matthew McConaughey), flees his position which brands him an enemy of the State. Opposed to slavery and...
3.0 Movie Review: The Infiltrator Sophie Elizabeth September 16, 2016 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews Based on true events in 1986, federal agent Robert Mazur (Bryan Cranston) must go undercover to infiltrate a money-laundering scheme led by infamous drug lord, Pablo Escobar. Posing as a wealthy businessman,...
5.0 Movie Review: Hunt For The Wilderpeople Sophie Elizabeth September 11, 2016 Movie Reviews Having moved out of the city, a young reprobate by the name of Ricky Baker (Julian Dennison) and his reluctant foster father, Hec (Sam Neill), finds themselves at the centre of a ruthless manhunt after they...
3.0 Horror Channel Frightfest review: Cruel Summer Sophie Elizabeth August 29, 2016 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews Inspired loosely by true events, a teenager with autism, Danny (Richard Pawulski), ventures into the serene countryside as part of his Duke of Edinburgh Award. Little does he know, however, that classmate...
1.0 Horror Channel Frightfest review: Knucklebones Sophie Elizabeth August 27, 2016 Film4 Frightfest, London, London Reviews A group of bored teens enter inside an abandoned factory in an attempt to cheer up their depressed friend, Neesa (Julin Jean - Cherry Bomb, 2009). Once inside, the group discover a box of mysterious items...
4.0 Movie Review: War Dogs Sophie Elizabeth August 19, 2016 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews Set in Florida in 2005, David Packouz (Miles Teller) is a down-and-out massage therapist who becomes a multi-millionaire when he teams up with a high-school friend, Efraim Diveroli (Jonah Hill), supplying...
2.5 Movie Review: Ghostbusters Sophie Elizabeth July 20, 2016 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews 1 Comment Having lost their jobs at a University, paranormal researcher Abby Yates (Melissa McCarthy), and physicist Erin Gilbert (Kristen Wiig) set out to prove that ghosts exist following two mysterious sightings of...
3.5 Movie Review: The Neon Demon Sophie Elizabeth June 2, 2016 Editor's Choice, Movie Reviews Jealously ensues among a group of models when an aspiring 16-year-old, Jesse (Elle Fanning) takes Los Angeles by storm. Caught up in a fame and youth obsessed industry, both her innocence and vitality are...